released any time now. a total of 50 are set to be released over the next four days. israel confirmed they were given a list of those names and started to contact the families. as far as we know, families who may have hostages returned in the next few days have not yet had word of whether or not their loved ones names are on the list. in return for that hostage release israel will itself release 39 palestinian prisoners today, that is made up of 2a women, and 15 teenage boys, and that group is the first of 150 palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails who are due to be released as part of this. in the last few hours we have seen trucks rolling through the rafah crossing, in larger number than we have seen at any point during this war so far, taking that desperately needed aid into gaza, you can see there, pictures of the trucks that started to move through, a lot them carrying very basic things, like food and water, also medical supplies as well, but crucially fuel. egypt s
it s really incredible when you see how dark it is. we re standing basically on the perimeter line of the area and the places that aren t affected. a few feet away the gift shop is completely in the dark. you can see some police officers directing traffic on central park south. there is no power. think about famed hotels like the plaza hotel, essex house. those buildings still without power. we divide the electric system into networks. they re roughly equivalent to neighborhoods. we lost six of the networks on our electric system. i m happy to report that as of a few minutes ago, all six networks and all 73,000 customers have been restored. we have to make sure the system is designed in a way that this does not happen. when you are talking about a blackout or a potential blackout or significant area of the city having a blackout, you are
transmit power to address the demand. he doesn t believe anything nefarious, or it was a kind of foul play involved. although he said it is still early in the investigation. let me go back to paolo sandoval on the streets of new york for us. you ve been talking to tourists, what are you hearing? how are they reacting now? first, let me give you a sense of where we are, we re here in midtown manhattan, about 3 or 4 blocks south, you re going to end up in times square. you would run into central park. you re looking down 7th avenue and west 51st street, it s incredible when you see how dark it is, we re standing on the perimeter line of the affected area and the places that aren t affected, a gift shop, just a few feet away from me is all lit up. you see the gift shop across the street is completely in the dark, we ve been hearing from touri tourists, they are heart broken, many of them are going to get to
central park. you run into west 51st street it s incredible when you see how dark it is. we re standing basically on the perimeter line of the affected area and the places that aren t affected. a gift shop is all lit up, but yet you see the gift shop across the street is completely in the dark. you will see some of the police officers directing traffic on central park south. this is central park south where there is no power. think about famed hotels like the plaza hotel, the essex house, those buildings still without power. we divide the electric system into networks. they re roughly equivalent to neighborhoods, and we lost six of the neighborhoods on the electric system. i m happy to report that as of a few minutes ago, all six networks and all 73,000 customers have been restored. we have to make sure that the system is designed in a way that this does not happen. when you are talking about a blacked out or a potential black out or a significant area of the city having a blac
move the world back from the abyss of destruction. jeffrey, it is there are, obviously, words. abyss of destruction. but a very different tone, right? putting the onus, the opportunity on the russians as opposed to threatening them with fire and fury the likes of which the world has never before seen. sorry, go ahead. erin, two things. two things, quickly. what provoked the cuban missile crisis was the perception of weakness that president kennedy was seen by the soviets the to have demonstrated at the bay of pigs and later at the berlin wall. and they felt they could take him on in cuba and succeed and take him on in berlin and succeed. they could put nuclear missiles in cuba. there s one other thing that we re not mentioning hear. on january 12th of 1950, secretary of state deane atchison gave a speech at the national press club in which he drew the defensive perimeter line for america and the pacific. that line included japan and the